Learning spaces and environments

With COVID an ongoing concern and flu season getting started, aerosol researchers say there needs to be a focus on improving the quality of the air we all breathe while inside.

Too few schools have used Covid relief funds to improve air quality properly.

Almost two-thirds of Brisbane classrooms monitored for air quality have recorded carbon dioxide levels at high risk for COVID-19 transmission, a new study finds.

The NSW and Victorian government say they’re providing schools with adequate options for ventilation, including air filters. But schools can’t take proper action without monitoring air quality.

An international group of experts led by a Queensland-based expert are calling for a complete rethink of indoor air quality in the wake of COVID-19.

Victorian students are learning in classrooms with very poor air quality. Our year-long analysis of Victorian primary and secondary school classrooms has found the amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) often far exceeds the maximum acceptable standard.

A simple yet elegant solution grounded in science.

$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.

Improving indoor air quality may boost cognitive abilities as well as health. So how should buildings be designed to make us more productive?

Our health depends on the quality of air indoors, where most of us spend 90% of our time. The easiest solution is to open a window, but what if that's not an option?

Scientists and educators are searching for ways to improve air quality in the nation’s often dilapidated school buildings.

An architecture and design firm in New York installed indoor air sensors during the pandemic. Then the wildfires hit.

COVID has given us the opportunity to ensure our air is as safe as our water. It needn’t be expensive.

What are the design interventions we need to make to help us breathe easy indoors? Lidia Morawska, a distinguished professor and director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at the Queensland University of Technology, is one person who can help. She says it's high time we reset our relationship to air quality.

An expert in air quality is warning Australia's reticence to improve ventilation and acknowledge airborne spread of COVID-19 is leading to lockdowns that could have been avoided.

The evidence shows the main way COVID-19 spreads is through the air. I propose 3 steps Australia needs to take to protect people from infection risk and other indoor air hazards.

Better ventilation is part of President Biden’s plan for schools to resume in-person learning. Here’s how schools can do that quickly and without major investments.

Airflow inside buildings and other enclosed areas has received less attention than other COVID-19 prevention strategies, but now some experts are saying it is time to start talking about ventilation as a tool in our arsenal to reduce the spread of COVID-19

Before the election, the airconditioning approval process took three months. Now, schools are waiting 15 months.

More than 1300 schools have put their hands up for airconditioning, but only 27 have received it.

A small body of evidence suggests that when it comes to decision making, indoor air may matter more than we have realized.